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The Benefits Of Corticosteroids In Rhinoplasty

Rhinoplasty is one of the most commonly performed aesthetic facial surgery procedures and is one of the oldest as well. It has great success at reshaping the nose but every patient hates to undergo the inevitable swelling and bruising that is well known to accompany the procedure. In many cases the bruising under the Read More…

Technical Strategies – Perfusion Holes in Custom Skull Implants

Aesthetic cranioplasty often involves the coverage of large skull areas with alloplastic material. Whether it be PMMA or hydroxyapatite cements or with today’s custom 3D generated silicone implants, a fairly large amount of material can serve as a solid interface between the overlying scalp and the underlying cranial bone. As the scalp has an excellent Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Hip Augmentation by Fat Injections

Background: The hips are an important part of a female’s body and their shape is often very gender specific…women’s are curved while men are straight. To be specific, the hips refer to the anatomic region overlying the hip or femur-pelvic joint. It is located to the sides of the buttocks but below the iliac crest Read More…

Minimal Incision Chin Augmentation

Chin augmentation using synthetic materials is both the most historic facial implant procedure and still the most commonly done. This is evidenced in that chin implants have the largest number of styles and sizes commercially available of any facial implant manufactured today. Chin implants are inserted by incisions either from the inside of the mouth Read More…

Lifestyle Lift Company Suspends Business Operations

The Lifestyle Lift is a fairly well known cosmetic procedure due to extensive marketing and long-term branding efforts. It represents one of the few plastic surgery operations that has become ‘franchised’ and turned into a medical commodity of sorts. This is very different and much more difficult than what occurs with drugs and devices Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Helical Rim Earlobe Reduction

Background: The ear has the most complex shape of any facial feature with its many convolutions and ridges. But because it is on the side of the head, it is not scrutinized as easily that of the eyes, nose and lips. The size of the ear is often overlooked unless it has abnormally big or Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Webbed Neck Correction with Otoplasties

Background: The webbed neck deformity is a congenital skin fold disorder that runs along the sides of the neck to the shoulders. Known technically as the pterygium colli deformity, it is known to occur in a large number of medical conditions but the most common are the genetic conditions of Turner’s and Noonan syndrome as Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Temporal Browlifts with Lateral Canthopexies

Background: There are different types of browlifts that are done to help rejuvenate an aging eye area. The historic coronal browlift is done to lift up the entire brow arch through a long scalp incision way behind the hairline. An endoscopic browlift is performed using an endoscope through several small incisions just behind the hairline. Read More…

Treatment Of Permanent Injectable Filler Nodules By Microliposuction and Fat Injections

Injectable fillers are a very effective method of adding volume to facial wrinkles, folds and regional areas such as the cheeks. The most popular injectable fillers are made of hyaluronic acid materials which have the lowest incidence of complications as they are completely resorbable. Lumps and bumps may occur with their use due to overcorrection Read More…

Subfascial vs. Intramuscular Buttock Implants

The use of implants is one effective method for buttock augmentation. It is far surpassed by fat injections (aka Brazilian Butt Lift, BBL) in number of buttock enhancements done, however, due to the appeal and usual availability of adequate fat to harvest to do the procedure. The exact numbers are not known but I would Read More…